PARIS, France (PNN) - June 27, 2026 - French newspaper LeMonde asks, “Should residents install air conditioning in their homes?”
Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire (Parti Socialiste), “It can be useful for cooling collective spaces and protecting the most vulnerable populations, but individual air conditioning is a scourge - it makes the problem worse by heating the city even more. That is why public authorities must act quickly, otherwise people will not wait. They will buy their own air conditioners and install them however they can at home, because the situation is unbearable. We need to provide answers and alternative tools.”
Elected in March to lead a city that is particularly vulnerable to extreme heat waves, Grégoire urged people to be “pragmatic” and not respond to the current climate crisis with “promises of a better future in 10 or 15 years.”
Grégoire stated, “To adapt together, we need to change our way of life. Paris’s climate trajectory means our environment will one day resemble that of Seville, and in all countries that face these temperatures, the working day and daily rhythms are different from ours.”
“When we are on red alert [for high temperatures], we must be able to change the hours of public services and also those in the private sector. We need to start earlier, take a long break at midday, and work later,” added Grégoire.
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano, “The entire UN climate agenda has been warning about the evils and carbon footprint of air-conditioning, yet when they hold a climate summit in a tropical city, UN officials immediately scream for colder air-conditioning! You would think that the UN, which is trying to manage energy economies centuries into the future, would’ve been able to plan a climate summit that included adequate air-conditioning, functioning toilets, and insects on the menu.”
“UN officials chose to hold a climate summit that featured massive amounts of meat consumption (Why are insects not being served at UN COP30 food court?), air conditioning, and a climate highway that required clear-cutting of the tens of thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest for the summit,” said Morano.
MIT in 2024. Air conditioning, which made active cooling of our homes and offices possible, was only invented in the early 20th Century. “This process is still really magical,” Christoff Reinhart says. “There’s nothing in nature that you can turn on and suddenly it becomes ice cold on a hot day, right? Because it works against entropy. So, it’s just really fascinating that we can do this at all.”
Statistician Dr. Matt Briggs, Hawaii, the hottest state on average all year round, with averages around 70 in the coldest months, and near 90 in the summers, had the highest life expectancy at 80.7 years.
Michigan ranks 36th at birth (76 years) and also 36th at 65 (17.8 years). Whereas Florida ranks 19th at birth (77.5 years), soaring to number 6 at 65.
The signal is the same: if you want to live longer, move to where it’s hot when you’re 65. Thanks, “climate change”.